Sara's mom stood frozen on the proch for fifteen minutes watching what had just happened. She was too scared to move, for fear she would startle the giraffe and it would hurt her daughter. Everything in her was telling her to get Sara away from the animal, but she just couldnt. She couldnt say a word.
Sara closed the gate and the baby giraffe turned and looked at her one more time, as if to say he would be ok. Sara stood and couldnt move, until her mom walked up behind her and told her she did the right thing. There was no way she could have kept a baby giraffe in the yard. It wasnt big enough for him to grow up in. Where would he run, how would he learn to be a giraffe. All Sara could do was watch him walk away with the rest of the herd and cry. Mom hugged her and let her cry until she culdnt cry any more.
About 7:30, ranger Mike drove up in large truck with one of the other rangers. Mom opened the gate for him and let him drive into the yard. Ranger Mike stopped the truck and got out. He looked around the yard for the Giraffe, and was wondering what could have happened to the baby. Mom walked up tomike and told himwhat had happened that morning. He was just as surprised as mom had been to hear the story. He was happy to hear that the giraffe was with the heard and they excepted him back.
Mike then asked where Sara was, he had something for her. Mom went and got Sara to come out to the truck, where Mike was standing. Mike gave Sara a small black box he had made for her. He told her, if the baby giraffe came near the black box, within 1/2 mile, the box would beep. A green light would come on and flash, and it would beep at the same time. Mike made it to react to the chip he put in the baby's ear.He knew Sara didnt want to give up the baby giraffe, but maybe she would know he was around if they went for a walk some time.
This made Sara very happy, although she didnt know if it would work. Time would tell, and that she had a lot of. Sara also asked ranger Mike about the poachers, if anyone was going to catch them. Ranger mike said that since she and Jimmy gave him such good descriptions of the men, they know who they are and they probably will be caught by the end of the week, they would go to jail for a very long time for what they did.
Suddenly the box started to beep, slowly at first, then it got a little louder. Sara was so surprised, she didnt realise what was really happening at first. Then she looked up and the herd of giraffes were walking past the yard, about a mile away. Ranger Mike said maybe the signal in the box was stronger than he thought. Sara ran to the fence and watched the herd walk slowly away. She hoped they would come back some day, but now she would know if they did.
Later that night, they were sitting in the house, talking about everything that had happened that day. Ther was a beep sound coming from the kitchen, where Sara had left the box on the table. They all got up to see why it started to beep, maybe it was broken. But Sara looked out the door and standing near the fence, was the baby and another large giraffe. He had come back to the place where he felt safe.
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